But BASIC also flourished in the West, thanks in part to the fact that super-successful microcomputers, which had proved to be a hit in schools, already came equipped with the programming language.

It was a concept developed at a university in the 1960s, but wasn’t a widely used part of programming languages until the 1990s. Basically, every language does it now,” says Hicks. Unlike companies, ...

The language that made that all possible. They called it the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code— BASIC. Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated.

Nowadays, "basic" has a very different and derogatory Urban Dictionary-style meaning. Fifty years ago on this very day, however, it was the name given to a new computer-programming language born ...

To get the basic coding skills to go from beginner to early programmer, Shaw recommends learning four different languages: My current method for training up beginners is to make them learn the ...

I learned computer programming writing Basic on an Atari 400. Ahhh that chiclet keyboard, I developed muscles on my fingers. ••• 2 (2 / 0) Report 2 (2 / 0) R ...

Ah yes, my first programming language on trash-80. I wouldn't go back tho. However, I would take Basic any day over Cobol. I'm getting really tired of migrating old code from the 70s. Same. I ...